This week we ask if it’s too late to get started in professions and how to use Craftsim to find profitable items. We also discuss the changing landscape of gold making and how expectations have changed and what you would do to make enough gold for the expansion?
My name is Samadan and I’ll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!
Too Late Getting Started on Professions?
Dragonflight is maturing as an expansion and many might not have been there at the start and want to get into professions later on. Just what is profitable these days and is it worth getting started so late? In this example, the question is asked for Inscription, but it applies to all professions.
Hey i just came back to the game, started df expansion, made a few deck but my levl is 72 ish, is it worth it to stay with inscription or should i change it before 10.2 if so, which profession should i take?
The limiting factor here is the time gated Knowlege Points before you are able to maximise efficiency.
The best way to make plenty with any profession is to keep leveling it. You’re going to be far behind other crafters no matter what profession you switch to. So just keep skilling it up and getting knowledge points and it’s the knowledge points that are most important. And there’s unfortunately a weekly cap on how many you can find minus the dragon shards of knowledge. So catching up will really be based on luck/activity.
That said, there are still niches you can focus on. CraftSim is great for looking at potential profitable items given your skill level and market..
Honestly, download craft sim addon and auctionator or tsm or both (craft sim relies on auctionator or TSM for pricing info). Craft sim will tell you what is profitable. You won’t make a ton of gold but there are quite a few crafts that are profitable in inscription.
As an example, this is what my character Stabadan’s Inscription looks like on Shadowsong-EU which is one of the lowest pop realms at the moment with Inscription slowly levelled over time ..
The key things to look at here are what are region-wide commodities and what are server specific non-commodities. Are the prices realistic and what’s the sale rate? Is there anything that can be done to be more efficient?
Once you’ve targeted a few recipes, you can test the market and see what kind of profit you get.
This of course is not looking at Work Orders. Have a look at what public ones are available and listen to trade chat to see what people are asking for.
One thing that would be incredibly useful here would be a filter for showing recent fulfilled orders especially on low pop realms.
Pickings may be slim certainly at the early stage until you can develop a profession fully in order to be competitive and not every profession has guaranteed profit especially at this late stage.
Dragonflight has really brought home with professions this expansion is that to make the most of them, you really need to invest time playing and developing as a crafter and even then profits are not guaranteed. You need to look for opportunities and niches, much like the real world.
10.2 Engineering Wyrmhole Generator
u/Jag has spotted that the ever useful Engineering Item – Wyrmhole Generator will have an option for the Emerald Dream
Had not seen it confirmed yet.
While not necessarily a great seller in Dragonflight due to how easy it is to fly around anyway, it may provide some utility to players wanting quick transportation to a general area.
“Was so much better in SL when it was not random.
Back in Shadowlands, the equivalent Wyrmhole Generator was almost essential due to the painful flight times from zone to zone. Even with the restriction of being usable only by engineers, you only needed basic skill to use it therefore there was still a market for selling it.
Stock up on Artisan’s Mettle Before 10.2
The Lazy Goldmaker has a video this week talking about why it would be prudent to stock up on Artisan’s Mettle for certain professions..
If you have enchanting you want to be able to absolutely crank out max quality devotion enchants, and with insight you can!
How to Gain 300k Gold per Week (without Dragonflight)
u/Vardam posed an interesting question this week about making enough gold to buy the Dragonflight expansion with gold …
When I come back I see a lot of changes 1 for example the price of the wow token, I remember back in shadowlands was cost only 180k now today is more than 300k and the many knowledge about farming it’s became obsolete
For example:
in draenor I was farming so much about cloth and leather in the garrison, today the bood are not give you the gold and the price of the mats are not very good.
in legion i was selling more of 20 vial of sand with cost of 90-100k on my server every month, today is not profitable.
most of the old raid running is not profitable because of the nerf in each new expasion and most of the trasmutation of old expansion like living steel or trugold are not worthy to made.
Now today, I’m strugger to find what is good to farm ,evertime I make an hour farming I can’t get more of 15k gold in the past in shadowlands was good but today is not so much.
and this is getting worst because my account are not having dragonflight enter the actual content is limited to me.
now my question is how i can i do to earn 200-300k per week, so I can reach the gold to buy the expansion?
THank you if you answer me and have a good day
What makes this question so interesting is that it highlights the changing landscape of goldmaking since the beginning of WoW.
Previously, players would expect to be able to simply focus on farms and raw gold and expect to gain a significant amount of gold. As time has progressed the divide between what a player can gain with low effort vs. the relative price power of gold in the Token has increased further and further.
To add, now isn’t an amazing time (IMO) for gold making as we’re at a standstill for the current patching easing into a new patch.
With all the above, my best advice is just your standard transmog crafting. Or find a niche no one is using, a great example is engineering materials. There are some decent flips to be made just buying cheap material and putting it into bolts / other items used for advanced engineering recipes similar to how smelting ores to bars for profit used to work.
All the best!
Now, it’s still entirely possible to make a meaningful amount of gold. However, the low hanging fruit methods that many liked to employ simply no longer have a significant impact and therefore seem pointless from a time/reward perspective.
It’s a difficult things to balance a games economy and it largely works itself out depending on all the driving factors. Just look at the difference in economy between Retail, WotLK and Hardcore. 3 vastly different markets all within the same blueprint of a game.
In terms of answering the question, last weeks blog highlighted what could be done with transmog and the one before that talked about open world farms and their GPH. Both of which can be achieved without Dragonflight.
This is how you set tsm up to find speed stat items
Go into the tsm groups, select base group only, to the right where it says “show ungrouped items” select specific item and in the search bar above it enter “/i376/i376”. The list will populate all Armor, weapons that are ilvl376. Go through the list and check all the speed stat items and put them in a new group. Now you can do a shopping scan for that group and be rich forever.
I haven’t updated tsm in a long time so hopefully this still works.
You said you played in legion , if you have a fully completed questline/upgraded order hall then you can get the bos missions , with less than 2 hours per week doing the missions+some wq you can get enough bos to craft the bs mount , about 2-3 per week. It sells very well and has about 20k profit sometimes , the recipe its easy to get you can get crafting in less than an hour , this will depend on realm. Another crafted mount that sells well and for good profit its the bfa engi mount but the recipe its very very hard to get so if you dont have it already its not worth it.
What do you think? Have your expectations in gold making in Dragonflight changed this expansion? What would you do in today’s landscape without the expansion to make enough gold to buy it?
Further Reading
Most of this information was discussed and originally posted on the /r/woweconomy subreddit or in the accompanying Discord Server.
I hope you found this useful and If you have any suggestions or feedback, please do say so in the comments below..
Until next time, Happy Goldmaking!
Samadan
